“They know that we’re coming for them and we will get them”, she said.
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Rear Admiral Buschman, the Coast Guard’s commander over the district that includes Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and the Caribbean islands, spoke Tuesday with The Florida Times-Union and said the military is still searching for the teens with the goal of rescuing them.
It’s unknown whether the boys are wearing life jackets, he said.
He said he doesn’t believe the boys were heading to the Bahamas, as some have speculated, but that they obviously ended up in the deep water they were supposed to steer clear of.
He says 14-year-olds Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos are at the mercy of the Atlantic Ocean. He’s also encouraging people to head to their beaches to look for any clues that might wash ashore.
“If you’re not surrounded in this community or you don’t have it running through your blood, you’ll never be able to understand it, but we can assure everyone that these boys are skilled and knowledgeable and strong enough and have what they need to get through this”, Cohen said. “These children are surrounded by water from the moment they are born”, Cohen said. They are hopeful that the teens could survive in warm water for about four to five days.
Their love of the sport defined them, friends said.
“Boating is a way of life for some families, mine included”, Dawn Quarles argued on Facebook, according to a separate Washington Post article.
Authorities are growing to find couple of youngsters that has gone missing while you are fishing away from the Florida shoreline.
The search area has shifted north because of the flow of the Gulf Stream and the hope that the pair might be clinging to a cooler or being held up by life jackets.
According to the Coast Guard, other agencies involved in the search include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Customs and Border Protection, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Officials say the sister of 58-year-old William Morlock notified the Coast Guard command center in Miami on Sunday that her brother had not returned from a paddleboarding trip.
The Coast Guard scoured an area the size of West Virginia with no sign of the boaters by early Tuesday morning. So far, they’ve completed 36 separate searches.
Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor told CNN on Tuesday that “at some point we have to suspend our search efforts”. It continued throughout Monday night.
Monday night hundreds gathered at the Jupiter Inlet where they released lanterns with flames in them.
Cohen and Carly Black, Austin’s mother, rejected the accusation that the boys were too young to be out boating alone on The Today Show.
Korniloff told one news outlet that both boys are experienced boaters.
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Vittone agreed, recalling his own struggle to pick people out of large bodies of water during his time in the Coast Guard.
